Ageroth

@Ageroth@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office support in Windows 10 ends in October too - what that really means⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have spent the last several weeks re-creating documents like this there were developed and maintained by one guy for 38 years.
  There’s a half page drawing done in word that is lines and boxes and text all as text and positioned with spaces and tabs. I think I took a screenshot of it and just made it all one picture

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An assembly line robot (like welding or material handling, I’ve worked with ABB, Fanuc, Motoman, Panasonic) are still called robot “arms” with the end portion often called the “wrist” so there is a degree of anthropomorphizing even if it’s not the whole body. And they do resemble an arm, however with 6 axis motion the motion is more like from your hips to your wrist than shoulder to wrist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s 8 isn’t it. It’s ok, I liked it too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIUC the calculation of GDP doesn’t factor in whether the produced goods serve a human need - the system can in theory continue to optimize for ever-increasing GDP while every human on earth starves to death.

  There’s an old joke I remember about economists and the GDP.

  Two economists are walking through the jungle and come across a gigantic pile of lion scat. One turns to the other and said I’ll pay you 100$ to eat a bite of that shit.
  Being an economists and 100$ being worth a lot, the guy eats the shit and gets paid.
  A little while later they come across a pile of rhino dung. The now richer economist turns to the first and offers 100$ for him to take a bite out of this pile. 100$ is again a lot of money so he does it and eats the shit.
  As they’re walking along, both picking their teeth, one turns to the other and asks “did we both just eat shit for nothing?” And the other days “of course not, now the GDP of the jungle has increased by 200$!”